Word: apollos
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...real world, Mission Control often remains in the background while the astronauts are in the spotlight. But in "Apollo 13," viewers get an inside look at a time when the engineers ruled in Houston, when life-or-death decisions were instantly made, unfettered by budgetary constraints and bureaucratic restrictions...
...time defending Oscar champion Tom Hanks stars as Lovell, who commanded Apollo 13 and wrote the book, Lost Moon, upon which the movie is based...
There was, of course, one final part of the Apollo 13 saga--the anxiety felt by the families of the astronauts...
...focus of the movie is on the Lovell family. The audience feels the sleepless nights of Lovell's wife Marilyn, seated in her bedroom clutching the small NASA radio that lets her listen in on communications between Houston and Apollo 13. The terror of the children is also palpable, especially as they wait to see if Odyssey'sreentry was successful...
...Apollo 13 was perhaps one of America's greatest examples of Yankee ingenuity. As Harris says toward the end of the movie, it was the space program's "finest hour...